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• Interesting Facts About the Solar System

  

  The Solar System consists of the Sun (a star of medium size within the Milky Way galaxy) and the bodies orbiting around it: 8 major planets, at least 171... Read more

  The 31 May 2011 by   Gabe12logan
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• Photopic Sky Survey

  

  Open your eyes to the hidden night. What do you see? This was the anthropic question of a year-long photographic project dubbed the Photopic Sky Survey, meant t... Read more

  The 05 May 2011 by   Gerard
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• Infinite Planet Theory

  

  Rob Dietz over at the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) just e-mailed me and suggested I reproduce a recent post of theirs on... Read more

  The 24 May 2011 by   Bradshaw
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• Olbers Paradox

  

  Why is the sky black at night? If the Sun was on two times farther away than it is, then we would receive a quarter of the quantity of photons that we now... Read more

  The 14 May 2011 by   Gabe12logan
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• Elliptical Galaxies

  

  Elliptical galaxies don't have spiral arms that look's like a monotonous elliptical clusters. They have very little inter-stellar gas, which is why there is no... Read more

  The 02 May 2011 by   Gabe12logan
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• Jupiter's Great Red Spot

  

  Jupiter's Great Red Spot is the most interesting phenomena associated with Jupiter's atmosphere. The shape of this area is elliptical and is in Jupiter's... Read more

  The 27 May 2011 by   Gabe12logan
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• NASA Unveils Next Generation Space Vehicle

  

  With just one space shuttle mission still on the docket, the current U.S. space program is quickly coming to an end, and soon the venerable workhorse shuttle... Read more

  The 25 May 2011 by   Kungfujedi
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